[Vince]

It does look like PalosSports is shipping different balls under the same part number, as the identical Ball to Brad's arrived in CT as well. Besides the pattern, there are other differences.

The balls in the kit weigh around 1.5-1.7 pounds, are marked inflate to 2 lb, and are made in China. Some teams that ordered the 10089 balls early received these balls from PalosSports.

The balls Brad (& others) weigh 2 lb, are marked to inflate to 0.5 lb, and are made in Indonesia. Some teams that ordered the 10089 balls later in the first week received these balls from PalosSports.

To most of the world that buys them, these balls are "the same" - to those of us trying to design a robot to manipulate them and have a human train to shoot them, they are two very different balls.

I suspect FIRST will sort this out with PalosSports in the near future.